Accession Data
Boesenbergia rotunda
Common Name: Fingerroot
Family: Zingiberaceae
Country of Origin: Assam to China (S. Yunnan) and W. Malesia
Accession Data
Accession #: 201900131
Accession Date: 2019-07-10 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 3207
Quantity: 1
Source: Kress Collection, SI#1999188
Provenance:
Kress# 99-6511 Kress, W. J., Bordelon, M., Williams, K. J., Thet Htun Myanmar: Mandalay Division: Pyin-Oo-Lwin Township Dat Taw Gyaik Water Fall, Trail to waterfall 21.9786, 96.5528, 03 Jul 1999 Herb with shoots to 1.2 m, leaves entirely green, base of stem deep red. Inflorescence terminal on leafy shoot, primary bracts deep green, bracteoles pale green and hidden within shoot. Flowers: corolla tube white, petals and lateral staminodes pink
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
SubFamily: Zingiberoideae
Tribe: Zingibereae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Friday, 12 July, 2019.
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